hi I'm Indie nidel and this is another
exciting episode of out of the trenches
where I sit here in the chair of wisdom
and answer all of your questions about
World War
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I and here are some questions from our
patreon supporters uh Matt tantillo
writes phenomenal work you guys are
doing thanks and thanks for letting us
contribute to what will be a great four
years and Beyond oh yeah uh here are my
question questions for you what did the
Western Front look like at its northern
extreme along the European Coast was
there an early version of Fortress
Europe which spiked the seashore did the
Navy support non-hib ground supportes at
all forces at all did armies ever try to
flank each other by going around the end
of the line via the sea they did and it
was an important part of the War uh in
the fall of 1914 after the Germans had
been stopped at the Battle of the M the
Allies in the Germans tried to outl each
other as trench lines grew further and
further north and this was called the
race to the Sea and it ended at the
coast in Belgium creating trench lines
that ran all the way from the sea down
to Switzerland and then you couldn't
outflank anybody and he has another
question uh what kind of propaganda was
used by various sides especially once
the quick victory was lost and people
were losing sight of a glorious
Victory
anything and everything pretty much um
there were campaigns to shame men into
joining up suggesting they were unmanly
if they didn't join there was the
distribution of disinformation or
outright lies claiming that they whoever
they happened to be were doing better
than ever and victory was within sight
you know just around the corner there
was bartering um the Russians like
offered citizenship and things to Jews
who joined them in the arm struggle
there were attempts to get neutral
countries like the US to join the war
and there were above all I think
campaigns to paint enemy actions in the
most negative light possible that the
enemy were butchers and even though it
took so much time and so many men that
enemy must be defeated simply for
civilization to survive Zephyr writes
I've been wondering for quite a while
now where do you get all the footage for
these videos oh we get it from the
British path film archives we'll give
you a link below and it's really cool to
just go there and just look up stuff
type like beetles or type type anything
type hair and you'll get like 50 awesome
videos from the 50s and 60s it's really
cool uh another patreon supporter
question xenophone writes hello Indie
and Company hello xenophone uh starting
off in the week 24 episode you mentioned
that one of the greatest challenges the
austr Hungarian Army faced in fighting
the Russians in the carpathians was the
poor Railway infrastructure in the
region which didn't allow the austr
Hungarian Army to properly reinforce and
resupply yes we did mention that yes if
such were the hardships that austr
Hungarian forces faced then how did the
Russian army reinforce and resupply so
far away from home while also fighting
in the carpathians which suffered from
the aforementioned poor
infrastructure they didn't they they
didn't Russia was kicking all kinds of
ass when they were fighting on their
side of the mountains but as they pushed
the austrians back deeper into the
carpathians and back to the Austrian
side they they suffered the Russians
suffered the same problems of supply and
transport one big difference was that
the Russians were far better equipped
for war in both winter and the mountains
but resupplying in the carpathians would
be a logistical nightmare for
anyone second how did the 100,000 austr
Hungarian soldiers Trapped In The
Fortress of pisil withstand the Russian
siege for so long considering their vast
numbers how did they resupply when they
were completely encircled by the Russian
army surely no Army carried enough
supplies to last out for months months
well to say that conditions at shil were
miserable would be an understatement
they lived off of horse meat and fillers
they lived basically off of anything
they could get their hands on four
months and the Fortress was only made to
hold about half the amount of people it
ended up holding now planes could fly in
and out but they couldn't help much but
the answer about resupplying was simply
they didn't they couldn't if you like
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